Saturday, January 9, 2016

Kim Philby, the Beirut years.

All artwroks by Tarek Chemaly

Kim Philby - the Brittish spy who was a Soviet double agent - in Beirut: His house on rue Kantari, his mistress
then wife Eleanor, his trips to the Kit Kat with his father St John (and brief
residence with him in Ajaltoun), the head barman at the St. George hotel Bar
Ali Bitar, his family life including picnics, and eventually his fleeing on a
stormy night in 1963 on board a Russian freight ship called the Dolmatova.